South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, who most lately starred in Netflix‘s 2023 Okay-drama Bloodhounds, was discovered lifeless in her residence on Sunday, February 16. She was 24.
As first reported by the Yonhap Information Company, citing legislation enforcement, Kim’s physique was discovered by a good friend in Seongsu-dong, a neighborhood in japanese Seoul, South Korea, simply earlier than 5 p.m. native time on Sunday. Whereas a reason for demise has not been made official, police said that they’re treating it as demise by suicide.
“We imagine she made an excessive alternative and plan to deal with it as a suicide,” police advised reporters, based on Yonhap.
Born on July 31, 2000, Kim started her profession as a baby actor, showing in movies reminiscent of A Model New Life (2009) and The Man From Nowhere (2010). In her teenagers, she landed extra main roles, most notably within the 2014 movie A Woman at My Door.
Kim additionally appeared in a number of tv drama collection, together with Can You Hear My Coronary heart (2011), The Queen’s Classroom (2013), Hello! Faculty-Love On (2014), and Secret Healer (2016), which marked her first grownup lead position in a TV collection. She additionally starred within the collection Leverage (2019) and No one Is aware of (2020).
Her most up-to-date position got here within the six-episode Netflix Okay-drama Bloodhounds, the place she performed Cha Hyun-joo. Nonetheless, her profession took a downward flip in April 2023 after she was discovered responsible of driving below the affect when she crashed her automobile in Seoul a yr earlier.
The actress was reported to have crashed her automobile right into a guardrail, timber, and a transformer in the course of the incident, inflicting a short lived energy outage within the space, per Yonhap. She was fined round $14,000 however prevented jail time.
In response to Selection, Kim tried to renew her performing profession following the incident in a play, Dongchimi, however was met with backlash and later dropped out over well being points. The outlet additionally stories that a lot of her display time in Bloodhounds was edited out within the wake of her DUI crash.
In case you or anybody you understand is having suicidal ideas, please contact the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or dial 988. In case you or a beloved one are in rapid hazard, name 911.